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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE

Department of Health

HSJ reports leak that reveals government fears over 50,000 nurses plan

HSJ has revealed that senior government officials are challenging NHS England’s plans for boosting retention to deliver the prime minister’s … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Department of Health, NHS England, recruitment, staff shortage, understaffing

NHS and social care: manifesto 2019 check

Election manifestos are not the place to find detailed health policies, but they do give an insight into how the … Read more

Categories General election 2019 Tags A&E, Conservative Party, cuts to services, deficit, Department of Health, general election 2019, Green Party, hospitals, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, NHS reform, Privatisation, social care, underfunding, understaffing, waiting lists, waiting times

Calls to scrap ‘immoral’ NHS fee for foreign staff

Medical associations are dismayed at the plans by Boris Johnson to charge foreign staff who work in the NHS £625 … Read more

Categories Staffing, Funding Tags BMA, Department of Health, NHS staff, RCN, Royal College of Physicians

Is the £1.8 billion Boris is injecting into the NHS “new” money?

Boris Johnson wrote in the Sunday Times: “It is thanks to this country’s strong economic performance that we are now … Read more

Categories Funding, Cuts to services Tags Boris Johnson, capital spending, cuts to services, Department of Health, Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust

Brexit: Warning over cancer treatment supplies after no deal

Senior doctors have written a letter to the prime minster calling for ”urgent clarification” of plans to supply cancer treatments … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags Brexit, Department of Health

Funding body for Cambridge IVFs told by health department cutting NHS IVF treatment is “not acceptable”

People have been campaigning against the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) following plans to cut NHS-funded IVF treatment. … Read more

Categories Cuts to services, CCGs Tags CCGs, cuts to services, Department of Health, fairness, ivf, NICE guidelines

King’s College hospital trust makes biggest overspend in NHS history

A leading London hospital trust is expected to record an annual deficit of between £180m and £191m – the biggest … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags deficit, Department of Health, hospitals, NHS England, overspending, underfunding

Every patient to have ‘right’ to access new digital GP providers

The long-term plan, published on Monday, said that by 2022-23 all patients in England will have access to a “digital … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Quality of care Tags community health, Department of Health, digital health, GPs, NHS England, NHS reform, primary care, Public Health

NHS staffing crisis could harm plan to save half a million lives

NHS leaders are to outline a future in which genomics, cutting-edge surgery and artificial intelligence help save hundreds of thousands … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Department of Health, NHS England, NHS staff, recruitment, staff shortage, understaffing

Revealed: Vital STP projects face doubt after £1bn fund snub

An £84m urgent and emergency care transformation in Middlesbrough, system wide cancer reconfiguration in South Yorkshire, and a large elective … Read more

Categories National STP Tags Department of Health, LEAD STORY, National STP, NHS England, NHS reform, STP 14, STP 17, STP 18, STP 21, STP 22, STP 27, STP 43, STP 6, STP 9, underfunding
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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE